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About William Saas

William Saas (@billysaas) is assistant professor of rhetoric in the Department of Communication Studies at Louisiana State University. He is also a Research Scholar for the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity, co-director of The Modern Money Network Humanities Division, and host of the Money on the Left podcast. His current academic work mobilizes and develops neochartalism as a theoretical framework for radical cultural, political, and rhetorical critique. He has authored or coauthored articles in Advances in the History of Rhetoric, Dollars & Sense, Quarterly Journal of Speech, Rhetoric & Public Affairs, symplokê, and Western Journal of Communication.
  • The Quest for Economic and Monetary Sovereignty in 21st Century Africa

    Confronting Monetary Imperialism in Francophone Africa with Ndongo Samba Sylla

    Scott Ferguson and Maxximilian Seijo and William Saas

    On this episode, Scott Ferguson and Maxximilian Seijo talk with Sylla about the history of political economy in pre-and post-colonial Africa; the theoretical bases and political stakes of the anti-CFA Franc movement; and how Modern Monetary Theory ought to inform current and future efforts to restore political and economic sovereignty to West African nations.

  • Myth of the Medieval Jewish Moneylender with Julie Mell

    Scott Ferguson and Maxximilian Seijo and William Saas

    On this episode, Scott Ferguson and Maxximilian Seijo speak with Mell about these and other connections that may be drawn between her own and neochartalism’s critical projects.

  • Direct Job Creation in America with Steven Attewell

    Scott Ferguson and Maxximilian Seijo and William Saas

    In this episode, we’re joined by Steven Attewell, Adjunct Professor of Public Policy at the City University of New York’s School of Labor and Urban Studies.

  • Money & Power with Jamee Moudud

    Scott Ferguson and Maxximilian Seijo and William Saas

    In this episode, we’re joined by Jamee Moudud, a professor of economics at Sarah Lawrence College, Jamee draws on the tradition of critical legal studies to extend the constitutional theory of money to new historical and international contexts.

  • Poor People’s Campaign – June 23, 2018

    Scott Ferguson and Maxximilian Seijo and William Saas

    In this special episode, we offer a montage of interviews, songs, and speeches recorded during the Poor People’s Campaign’s June 23 rally on the National Mall and march on the US Capitol. To learn more about the 21st Century.

  • Gender, Labor, & Law with Emma Caterine

    Scott Ferguson and Maxximilian Seijo and William Saas

    In this episode, we speak with Emma Caterine (@emmacaterineDSA), a law graduate and writer with more than a decade of experience working within economic justice, feminist, LGBTQ, and racial justice movements. We talk Democratic Socialists of America, MMT, the advantages of a federal jobs guarantee over a universal basic income, the place for sex work in a jobs guarantee program.

  • The New Postcolonial Economics with Fadhel Kaboub

    Scott Ferguson and Maxximilian Seijo and William Saas

    In this episode, we speak with Fadhel Kaboub (@fadhelkaboub), associate professor of economics at Denison University and President of the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity. Fadhel outlines a new critical approach to postcolonial political economy, arguing that re-gaining financial sovereignty is a crucial next step for postcolonial nations hoping to achieve social, economic, and environmental justice.

  • Confronting Cinema’s Fascist Unconscious with Maxximilian Seijo

    Scott Ferguson and Maxximilian Seijo and William Saas

    In this episode, Money on the Left cohost Maxximilian Seijo (@maxseijo) expands upon the argument made in his video essay, “Inglorious Basterds: Nazi Desire Fully Employed,” which takes a neochartalist lens to Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds (2008).

  • Job Guarantee as Historical Struggle with David Stein

    Scott Ferguson and Maxximilian Seijo and William Saas

    In our inaugural episode, we consider the recent resurgence of full employment politics in the United States from both a political and historical perspective with historian David Stein (@davidpstein).

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